Đỗ Thảo Nhi
- About me
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Đỗ Thảo Nhi (she/they) is a doctoral researcher at the Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) and International PhD Program in Literary and Cultural Studies (IPP). Currently, she is working on a dissertation titled “Submission is Power: Remasculinization in Contemporary Asian American Literature." Before coming to Gießen, Nhi studied and worked in Paderborn, Vietnam, and Thailand. In Vietnam, she works as a lecturer in British and American Studies and writes prose and poetry. Sometimes, Nhi holds small art exhibitions in Vietnam.
ORCID iD: 0009-0007-6807-3344
- Contact
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nhi.do@gcsc.uni-giessen.de
- Publications
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Nhi Thảo, Đỗ. “‘The (In)Visible Man’: Renegotiating Asian American Masculinities in the 21st Century.” On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture 13 (2025). <https://doi.org/10.22029/oc.2022.1501>.
- Presentations
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Retreats in the Margins: Nature Writing as a Form of Resistance in World of Wonder: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Conference “Forest Cabins, Garden Sheds, and Other Niches: Spaces of Retreat, Social Transformation and the Potentiality of Writing”
University of Giessen, Germany, 2026.Power Dynamics of Asian American Masculinities in Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown
Spring International PhD Seminar 2026
Roosevelt Institute of American Studies, the Netherlands, 2026.'The Fall of Sifu': Aging Asian American Masculinities and the Aging Male Body in Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown
The Fifth International Conference for Research Initiation in Literary and Cultural Studies (V XIIIELC): “Materialities: Bodies, Objects, and Contexts”
University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2026.Mapping the Queer Body in Contemporary Asian American Poetry: Kyka Aoki, Yanyi, and Ocean Vuong
Conference “Queer Journeys in North American Literature and Culture”
University of Innsbruck, Austria, 2025.(In)Visible Masculinities: Emasculated Stereotypes and Remasculinization in Ocean Vuong’s Works
HERMES Summer School “What Matters in the Humanities?”
Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3, France, 2025.
- Research Interests
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Men and Masculinities Studies
Critical Masculinities Studies
Asian American Studies
Contemporary British and American Literature
Queer Studies
Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Teaching
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At Justus-Liebig University Giessen and the GCSC/IPP:
- WiSe 26/27: Seminar: "Critical Masculinities Studies and Representations of Gender in Contemporary American Literature"
- WiSe 25/26: Seminar: "Introduction to Asian American Literature."
- IPP Workshop: "Introduction to Masculinity Studies" (2025).
Invited lectures:
- "(Soft) Masculinities and Racial Castration in Asian American Studies" at Paderborn University (2026)
- Projects
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Current project: "Submission is Power": Remasculinization in Contemporary Asian American Literature
(funded under the DAAD-GSSP Doctoral Scholarship)